Marion Davies
Acting
Born 1897-01-03
Died 1961-09-22
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
67 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
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Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist.
Davies was already building a solid reputation as a film comedienne when newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, with whom she had begun a romantic relationship, took over management of her career. Hearst financed Davies' pictures, promoted her heavily through his newspapers and Hearst Newsreels, and pressured studios to cast her in historical dramas for which she was ill-suited. For this reason, Davies is better remembered today as Hearst's mistress and the hostess of many lavish events for the Hollywood elite. In particular, her name is linked with the 1924 scandal aboard Hearst's yacht where one of his guests, film producer Thomas Ince, became ill. Despite the legend surrounding Ince's death, likely from alcohol consumption, he did not die on the Hearst yacht. The producer died a few days later in the arms of his wife.
In the film Citizen Kane (1941), the title character's wife—an untalented singer whom he tries to promote—was widely assumed to be based on Davies. But many commentators, including Citizen Kane writer/director Orson Welles himself, have defended Davies' record as a gifted actress, to whom Hearst's patronage did more harm than good. She retired from the screen in 1937, choosing to devote herself to Hearst and charitable work.
In Hearst's declining years, Davies provided financial as well as emotional support until his death in 1951. She married for the first time eleven weeks after his death, a marriage which lasted until Davies died of stomach cancer in 1961 at the age of 64.
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Filmography
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Acting
57 credits
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Show People
That's Entertainment! III
Marianne
The Pilgrim
Quality Street
Operator 13
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Blondie of the Follies
The Big Parade of Comedy
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
It's a Wise Child
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
The Florodora Girl
Five and Ten
The Christmas Party
The Red Mill
The Patsy
A Dream Comes True
Citizen Hearst
Cain and Mabel
A Trip to Paramountown
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Ever Since Eve
Page Miss Glory
Yolanda
Lights of Old Broadway
The Bride's Play
Peg o' My Heart
The Young Diana
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Going Hollywood
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
The Cardboard Lover
The Belle of New York
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Little Old New York
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Hearts Divided
The Fair Co-Ed
Enchantment
The Bachelor Father
Janice Meredith
Not So Dumb
Runaway Romany
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
The Dark Star
Murders of Hollywood
Tillie the Toiler
Beverly of Graustark
Getting Mary Married
Polly of the Circus
Adam and Eva
The Wife of the Centaur
The Restless Sex
Beauty's Worth
Producing
12 credits
Show People
Quality Street
Blondie of the Follies
It's a Wise Child
The Patsy
Page Miss Glory
The Cardboard Lover
The Belle of New York
Hearts Divided
The Bachelor Father
Not So Dumb
Getting Mary Married
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Writing
2 credits
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